Head of Engineering - Commercial Platform

In short

At On, the most exciting and fastest-growing global sports brand, we are looking for a Head of Engineering - Commercial Platform to lead the teams responsible for the core commercial foundation that powers On across every channel:
Retail, DTC, Wholesale, and future growth vectors.

This role owns the platforms that make experiences possible at scale - POS & Retail Experience Platform, Customer Profile Platform, Customer Communication Platform, Merchandising & Pricing Platform, Commercial Product API Platform, and Growth & Expansion Platform. Your mission is to build a cohesive, reliable, and reusable platform foundation so any channel team can build on top without extra effort, accelerating On's commercial expansion for the coming years.

You will manage multiple teams (ICs + Engineering Managers), drive platform strategy and technical excellence, and partner closely with Product, Data, Security, Enterprise Architecture, and Experience Engineering leaders to ensure the platform is scalable, composable, resilient, and easy to consume.

Your entrepreneurial and results-driven mindset, paired with strong platform engineering depth and proven global-scale execution, will make you a key member of the leadership team shaping On's future commercial capabilities.

• Proven experience leading multiple engineering teams (ICs + EMs), ideally in platform-heavy, product-driven organizations
• Deep platform engineering expertise with a track record of building and scaling global, distributed, mission-critical platforms
• Strong architectural leadership across domains such as:

• Strong product and stakeholder mindset: you can simplify complexity, align diverse groups, and drive decisions in sophisticated environments
• A track record of predictable delivery with high quality - you can navigate ambiguity, dependencies, and cross-functional constraints.
• Fluent communicator: you tell compelling technical stories and create clarity for all levels (ICs to execs)
• Strong people leadership: you coach leaders, build healthy teams, and cultivate high performance
• A startup mindset: resourceful, iterative, bias-to-action, and comfortable building foundations while the company scales rapidly
• Collaborative, humble, and energized by On's mission to ignite human spirit through movement